Syndication Feed From Technology News Daily - Computers/Servers

400GB 2.5-inch HDD, Toshiba

Technology News Staff — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:01:20 +0000

Toshiba Corporation has a new line-up of high performance 2.5-inch HDDs, including a low-noise flagship model that boosts areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 (308Gbpsi) to achieve a capacity of 400GB on just two platters, plus five drives that bring new levels of performance and 7,200rpm rotational speeds to the company’s full range of storage capacities.

Storage And Security Appliances Strategic Partnership

Technology News Staff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:27:37 +0000

RMI Corporation and Huawei-Symantec, formed a joint venture to develop leading-edge security and storage appliances, announced a Strategic Partnership to utilize RMI’s multi-core multi-threaded processors for the J.V.’s storage and security appliances, including the USG9000 and the USG6000. Huawei-Symantec also announced the introduction of the Joint Venture’s first unified security gateway device.

New Technology Reduces LSI Power Consumption

Technology News Staff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:35:50 +0000

NEC Corporation has developed an important new technology that is able to "visualize" the thermal distribution and reduce the power consumption of LSI, which has become an increasingly serious challenge as the miniaturization of LSI continues to advance. These latest developments have been demonstrated through NEC's SX-9 super computer.

New Single-Board Computers, BAE Systems

Technology News Staff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:17 +0000

New single-board computers, from BAE Systems, will manage the data processing and command-and-control functions of more than a dozen satellites to be launched over the next 18 months. The company produces three generations of single-board computers that are radiation-hardened to withstand the harsh environment of space.

The RAD750 was created for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) missions. To meet NASA's demand for high-speed processing, BAE Systems and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center joined to create a single chip interface based on the SpaceWire standard. The European Space Agency standard is becoming more popular throughout the satellite industry for high-data-rate applications.

Cooling Computers, Miniature Refrigeration System

Technology News Staff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:07:26 +0000

Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers.

Unlike conventional cooling systems, which use a fan to circulate air through finned devices called heat sinks attached to computer chips, miniature refrigeration would dramatically increase how much heat could be removed, said Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

ANL Supercomputer Fastest For Open Science

Technology News Staff — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:18:50 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers.

The Blue Gene/P – known as Intrepid and located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) – also ranked third fastest overall. Both rankings represent the first time an Argonne-based supercomputing system has ranked in the top five of the industry's definitive list of supercomputers.

Supercomputer Roadrunner Operating

Technology News Staff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:06:55 +0000

Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.

Welcome to the new frontier of research at Los Alamos: science at the petascale.

Roadrunner SuperComputer Smashes the Petaflop Barrier

Technology News Staff — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:37:38 +0000

In 2006, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration selected Los Alamos National Laboratory as the development site for Roadrunner and IBM as the computer’s designer and builder. Roadrunner, named after the New Mexico state bird, cost about $100 million, and was a three-phase project to deliver the world’s first “hybrid” supercomputer – one powerful enough to operate at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second). That’s twice as fast as the current No.1 rated IBM Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – itself nearly three times faster than the leading contenders on the current TOP 500 list of worldwide supercomputers.

Jaguar Supercomputer Upgraded

Technology News Staff — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:40:37 +0000

Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences.

The system recently completed acceptance testing, running applications in climate science, quantum chemistry, combustion science, materials science, nanoscience, fusion science, and astrophysics, as well as benchmarking applications that test supercomputing performance.

Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, NCAR Supercomputer

Technology News Staff — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:52 +0000

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world.